Poultry-roost.



ELFORD F. DOOLITTLE, OF TORRINGTON, CONNECTICUT.

POULTRYROOST.

Specification of Letters Patent.v

Patented Dec. 3, 1907.

Application filed March ll, 1907. Serial No. 361,695

T 0 all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELFORD F. DOOLITTLE, a citizen'of the United States, residing at Torrington, county of Litcheld, State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Poultry-Roost, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a simple and inexpensive perch or roost for birds and poultry which shall be provided with means for destroying parasitic insects,

as lice, upon the birds or poultry using the roost, to provide in brief an antiseptic ver-` min-proof and vermin-destroying roost, so that birds land poultry infected with parasitic vermin-will be relieved from the infection by use of the roost and will be kept free therefrom.

I/Vith this object in view I have devised the novel perch or roost which I will now describe, referring tothe accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification and using reference characters to indicate the several parts:

Figure 1 is a plan view of my novel perch or roost; Fig. 2 a side elevation partly in ver* tical section; and Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line 3-3 in Fig. 1.

10 denotes the body of the roost, which isa strip of wood having the form of a convex curve upon its upper side. In practice, I preferably make the strips semi-cylindrical, although this is notan essential feature of the invention. In the lower side of the body is a groove 11 in which is secured a metal tube 12 containing a wick 13 which is thorloughly impregnated with an antiseptic dismfecting, vermin-destroying chemical, as sulfo naphthol. The tube is detachably secured in place in any convenient manner, as by screws 14 passing down throughthe body and engaging the tube. The upper side of the tube is rovided with holes 15 which register with arger vertical openings 16 in the body. This is in order topermit fumes from the wick to escape therefrom vand pass up through the openings in the body and impregnate the air over the roost or perch, so that birds or poultry using the roost will be thoroughly disinfected by the fumes and remain so. At the lower ends of openings 16 I preferably provide openings 17 in the bodyon opposite sides of the tube and communicating with openings 16,**to permit dust that may settle in openings 16 to drop through and past the tu e and so not clog the openings. At intervals which are well yunderstood in practice-as, for example,

every three or four months-the tube may be removed from the body by loosening the screws and the wick removed therefrom and again impregnated with the antiseptic vermin-destroying chemical, it being, of course, obvious that occasional renewing of the chemical is necessary, although I have found in practice that it is not necessaryA to do so oftener than three or four times a year. Having re-charged thewick and threaded it in the tube,.the latter is again placed in the groove and secured in position by means of the screws.

Having thus described my invention, I claim:

1. A device of the character described comprising a body of wood having openings through it, atube secured to the body and having o enings registering with the openings in t e body and a wick in the tube adapted to be saturated with an antiseptic chemical.

2. A device of the character ldescribed comprising a body of wood curved upon its upper side and having vertical openings, a tube secured to the body on the underside and having openings registering with the openings in the body and a wick in the tube, substantially as described, for the purpose specified.

3. A device of the character described comprising a body of wood curved upon its upper side having vertical openings and pro- .vided with a groove in its underside, and

openings in the under side communicating with the verticalopenings, a tube secured in the groove and having openings registering with the vertical openings in the body and a wick in the tube, substantially as described, for the purpose specified. p l

4. A device of the character described comprising a body of wood semi-cylindrical upon its upper side and having a groove in its underside and vertical openings communicating with the groove, a tube having openings registering with the openings in the body, a wick in the tube vfor the purpose specified and screws passing through the body and engaging the tube.

5. A device of thecharacter described comprising a body of Wood curved upon its l and Wick in tbe tube, substantially as de` upper side having a groove 'in its under side and provided With vertical openings communicating with the groove, and openings in the under side communicating with the vertical openings, for the purpose set forth, a tube having openings registering with the vertical openings in the body and secured to the body scribed, for the purpose specified. 10 `In testimony whereof l a'HiX my signature, in presence of two Witnesses.

ELFORD F. DOOLITTLE. Witnesses WALTER HoLooMB, GEORGE E. CooK. 

